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Apart from this article, do we have any visual representation [a CGI, may be] of the full activity inside a cell?



I have always been amazed by these 2D representations: https://www.digizyme.com/cst_landscapes.html


one note- as lovely as those are, they don't make the point that everything in the cell (all the proteins, etc) is constantly grinding against each other (there's almost no room for water).


That's fascinating, thanks for sharing!


All of this incomprehensible complexity just so our genes can compete against other genes in their mindless drive for survival. It's kind of sad.


Things really got out of hand after that first self-replicating gizmo, didn't they?


The boilerplate to make a double click with your mouse do something relevant is also completely mind blowing. #complexity


I always appreciated the work of David Goodsell at UCSD: https://ccsb.scripps.edu/goodsell/

He paints cell internals.

I also like the Biovisions videos from Harvard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdmbpAo9JR4


Youtube proposed me that one, which was really nice too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR80Huxp4y8


We can't visualize what we do not know. Full activity inside cell is not known and we are pretty far from knowing that.


What do you mean? Didn’t they just simulate the full activity of a cell on a molecular level?


It seems they did not. For more details please read this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30114645


The thread you linked to seems to confirm this is a molecular level simulation.


vmd is a standard biological system simulation rendering software




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